The spring roadside cleanup for the community started out early with volunteers meeting at the Mink Creek Ballpark at 7:30 a.m the morning of May 3. The weather was agreeable. About 45 helpers picked up the orange trash bags and set out for their assigned area of Highway 36. Besides the satisfaction of a job well done they received breakfast around 9 a.m., back at the ballpark with the eggs, bacon, sausage and flapjacks plus orange juice or bottled water, that Clare Christensen and his cooking crew had prepared. It is a job well done, and always needed.
Carla and Mark Nielsen spent a couple of days at her parents' home, Bob and Claudia Erickson. They were attending the graduation festivities of their son Collin Nielsen, graduating Cum Laud in Agriculture this spring. Collin has recently returned from a teaching assignment in Italy.
As spring work is underway there is opportunity all around. Alex Huxford, a nephew, came to help out at the Richard Free ranch. Doug and Kathy Wilcox are in and out at their Mink Creek home. Nancy and Kevin Alder are getting in some time at their place in the Glencoe end of the valley.
Three young residents took part in the Dancing With the Stars, ballroom fundraising event. Jyllian and Greenlee Christensen are daughters of Lacey and Kerry Christensen and Hazen Baird is the son of LaRon and Liesa Baird. Greenlee's partner in this performance was our own Dr. Kerry Jepsen.
Joe and Kate Jepsen and their children spent a weekend with his parents, Mike and Mary Ann Jepsen. This is a fun time of year for a visit to the country. They live in Utah.
This is a wonderful time of year. It has been warm enough for comfortable fishing, for teaching kids who might be interested in learning the basics. Foster Reservoir is a popular spot right now. The sky is spring blue, a bit different from the chill blue of winter, both nice, but this one speaks of newness, life ahead. There are young people preparing for graduation, excited and yet a bit wary of the future.
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